[lifeisstillgood]

I have a theory / idea I call MOOP - massive open online psychology - the idea is that our phones / radar devices monitor our daily interactions - tone of voice, body gestures - to get a state of our anger / love / etc between our families (and work). And then uses simple epidemiology to help guide / train us.

The basic idea is your phone becomes your life coach.

This "privacy protecting" radar (which does not seem privacy protecting at all, just avoids leaking images which is just bad PR avoidance) looks like the same direction.

[bredren]

Nbd, but moop means garbage at the burn.

I agree this will happen, I suspect Apple is not only in the best position to exploit mmWave hardware but already well down the road in related interaction design.

Apple Watch already offers limited physical sense-based life coaching in the form of hand washing duration tracking and feedback.

Apple Watch’s assisted interaction with UI that quietly debuted in iOS 15 was an important set of physical sense-based interaction primitives in production.

They suggest to me the company has likely progressed capabilities sans mmWave.

[lifeisstillgood]

I assume moop is a slang term then? what's the burn?

And yes, I am sure many companies are thinking (or at least have people in them thinking like this). A few issues are the legal and cultural framework (I am quite happy for my personal data to be shared with accredited Health (ie NHS) researchers, but not with the Apple Watch product manager)

Epidemiology at this level is going to have transformative effects, but it needs to be trusted. I mean the only difference between a utopia of guided humans and a surveillance state is who gets the data and what they do with it. the people in the free country abs the ones in the oppressive totalitarian state will be wearing the same devices with the same radar.

[bredren]

At Burning Man, moop is an acronym for Matter Out Of Place, a reference to the leave no trace principal of the event. People will run after a small piece of material. Again, NBD, but in tech circles this might be the first thing people think of with that acronym.

I do think Apple captures plenty of meta data, but I do not know how much physical motion is getting sent back. One of the goals of the secure enclave was to store biometrics. And despite some notable concerns, the company has generally aligned its business model and branding to be privacy focused.

I can't think of another large company I'd trust more to handle this kind of information.

>Epidemiology at this level is going to have transformative effects...

The transformation is already underway. When Apple delivered Google Maps on iPhone with its pulsing blue dot, those with the technology instantly leapt ahead of those without it. I wonder how much stress has been relieved just from people knowing where they are.

I agree the technology can be misused, even to oppress. But this is true with any tech.

My concern is more about the disparity of those who have this tech and those that don't. The enhancements could start to show in a matter of years and quality of recommendations could coalesce into what will look like a new plane of daily living.